Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Miller, John Morrisette October 16 1793 - 1851
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JOHN MORRISETTE was born in Hawkins county, east Tenn., October 16, 1793.
His father was a son of a Virginian, who settled in east Tennessee. The
Morrisette family was originally of French Huguenot connection. John Morrisette
received but a limited education in east Tennessee, but was a diligent student
throughout his life. He came to Alabama in 1816, a single man, and for several
years clerked at St. Stephens, where in 1822 he married Miss Fannie Gaines, who
was born in Culpeper county, Va., in 1806. She died in Monroe county, Ala., in
1860. To this marriage there were born five sons and three daughters, one of the
daughters dying in infancy. The father of the family died in 1851. After his
marriage he settled in Monroe county on the right bank of the Alabama river, and
began planting, in which he was very successful. He became a large landowner and
wealthy. While he was managing his plantation he studied law at home, was
admitted to the bar and. thus became a lawyer by profession, though his practice
was quite limited. In politics he was a whig, and held several offices of honor
and trust. He was several times elected to the lower house of the legislature
and was a prominent member in his day. He was also elected several times a state
senator. He was well acquainted with leading men in the state and was a man of
great intellectual powers, of sterling qualities, and a thoroughly honest man.
He was an extensive reader, a great student, was philosophical and wise, and was
beloved by all who knew him. His eldest son, John, became a planter and died in
1870. James D. Morrisette died at the close of the war. Edmond P. Morrisette is
a lawyer in Montgomery. George Gaines Morrisette died a young man, and Frank S.
Morrisette is a farmer. He was born in Monroe county, Ala., September 28, 1841,
and graduated from the South Carolina college at Columbia, in 1859. He had
previously spent three years at the university of Alabama. He was married in
1868 to Miss Annie King, who died in 1880, leaving three children. In 1881, Mr.
Morrisette married Miss Vista Welch, of Talladega, by whom he has four children.
He has followed farming all his life. He is a democrat in politics, and in
religion he is a Presbyterian.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1066-1067
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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